I love my town. But, sometimes it smells… you know the smell I’m talking about. That kinda sewery smell you get a whiff of (or worse) now and again down at the Victoria Quay or along Stamp Ave. I’ve talked to a few folks about it, at the Ministry of Environment, City, and Catalyst… but there isn’t a lot of agreement on what’s happening.

So why not see if we as a community can pinpoint where this smell is coming from.

And at the same time, maybe we’ll compel not just our municipal leaders, but also maybe the provincial and federal environmental folks to take a look at this, because in my mind not only is it really bad for us as a potential tourist stop, but it’s *got* to be bad for our health.

So, if you smell that smell… you have lots of ways to leave a report:Report it at alberni.ca where this thought originated.
Jot it down in an email to me (chrisale@gmail.com).
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or text me (250-918-0027).
Here is the criteria you need to provide… please try to be as specific as you can.

Date/Time:
Location:
Strength of Smell: (scale of 5… 5 being physically affecting you, watering eyes, nausea, etc)
Nature of Smell: (rotten eggs?sewage?wood?tides?)
Weather: (any wind? rain? I will try to correlate it with information here)
Tide: If possible check if the tide is in or out, again, I can double check this.

Chris, we notice the smell too when we’re in town, but what I get is not a smell I’d associate with the pulp mill. To me, it smells more like the waste treatment plant across the river – almost like the ponds are full or overflowing, or the treatment process isn’t working as well as it should be.

Yesterday (Thursday 6th) at 4pm in front of Manzini Animal Clinic on Margaret a lovely sewage- rotton egg smell very strong. Tide looked high and wind was blowing from the south end of town.If I was a tourist and smelt this I would not hang around and would tell people Port Alberni stinks (which it does)
As a newer resident here we don’t need this.

Went fishing out of clutesi haven this morning (june 20th) at 5 am. WOW disgusting smell. from clutesi haven to the other end of town till we left port alberni on our way out the inslet.
I thought it was eithe rht emill or sewage? like sulphur or worse.